“There’s letters sealed; and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work,
For ’tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petard; and ’t shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon. O, ’tis most sweet
When in one line two crafts directly meet.”

— Prince Hamlet, in Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4.^[4]

“I’m not a capitalist. So I see the wealthy all finally getting hoisted by their own petard.”

“When you look at somebody like Richard Branson saying we should have more spaceships — we don’t need more spaceships, Richard. We have a problem down here called global warming. I feel the same way about Jeff Bezos. It’s a kind of supervanity they share.”

-Brian Cox, Shakespeare actor

When Jeff Bezos would have his enemy silenced and marshaled into knavery as a teacher, a teacher marries his ex-wife who took an unprecedented tens of billions of dollars from him in the settlement, likely leading to Melinda Gates’ divorce as well. Elon Musk as well has failed to marry. The ironic defeat of the billionaires in games of love should portend a defeat in the political game as well. Their own “weapons” or “crafts” turned against them!